APHELONOTUS.—PAGASA, 297 
Fam. NABIDA. 
APHELONOTUS. 
Aphelonotus, Uhler, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 208. 
This peculiar monotypic genus has very much the facies of a Reduviid, of the group 
Piratine. The anterior femora are enormously incrassate. The antenne are 5-jointed, 
1-3 moderately stout, 4 and 5 very slender, 3-5 subequal in length, 2 about twice as 
loug as 1 and a little Jonger than 3. The rostrum is short and very stout, apparently 
4-jointed. The elytra have a narrow linear clavus; the whole of the outer’ portion 
of the corium to the apex, exterior to the oblique median nervure, is regarded by 
Prof. Uhler as an embolium, but there is no cuneus; on the inner portion of the 
corium, a little beyond the apex of the scutellum, there is a triangular opaque space 
of a similar texture to the membrane; the membrane (not mentioned by Prof. Uhler) 
is moderately developed in the Antillean types, Tonger in the specimens from 
Guatemala. 
1. Aphelonotus simplus. (Tab. XVIII. fig. 15.) 
Aphetonotus simplus, Uhler, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 209’. 
flab. GuaTEMALA, Paraiso near Champerico and Paso Antonio (Champion).—ANTILLES, 
Grenada !. 
Two specimens, found under leaves &c., in marshy places, in the low country 
bordering the Pacific coast, in 1880. They are a little larger than the examples 
from Grenada described by Prof. Uhler, and have the membrane more developed, 
extending to a little beyond the apex of the abdomen; but these differences are not 
sufficient to warrant the separation of the mainland form. 
PAGASA. 
Pagasa, Stal, Rio Jan. Hemipt. ii. p. 60 (1862) ; Hemipt. Afr. ii. p. 88; Enum. Hemipt. iii. 
pp. 107, 108. 
Stal separated the American forms allied to Prostemma, Lap., under a separate genus, 
Pagasa, chiefly on account of the longer rostrum and the presence of a collar to the 
pronotum in front; but it is doubtful if it can be maintained, one of his species being 
intermediate in these respects. The Palearctic forms known to me have, however, 
a relatively shorter second joint to the rostrum, this reaching only to about the 
middle of the eyes, whereas in the American species it extends as far as or beyond 
the eyes. Our three representatives are very widely distributed and they may be 
separated thus :— 
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